Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Quotes

#1. Real education is about revolution.

Bryant McGill

#2. Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no!

Charles Dickens

#3. I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

Eric Maskin

#4. It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.

Charles Dickens

#5. It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

Walter De La Mare

#6. Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

John Carroll

#7. Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Stephen King

#8. The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?

Leigh Newman

#9. Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

John Boyne

#10. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.

Charles Dickens

#11. A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Charles Dickens

#12. In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Charles Dickens

#13. Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

Douglas Hurd

#14. Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Charles Dickens

#15. Christmas, and the end of the year, is definitely a time when people try their hardest to begin afresh, "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely". (Dickens - "A Christmas Carol") - and JEAN

Charles Dickens

#16. We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

Duke Snider

#17. The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Henry Norris Russell

#18. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Charles Dickens

#19. There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited

Charles Dickens